Purposeful organizations develop the next generation, not simply the next leader. My friend Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author and leading executive coach, does not like the term succession planning. Better to say, "succession development. " That means you are focusing on multiple managers and grooming them to lead.
Governance allows organizations to. . . achieve unprecedented automation.
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
I have been asked so many times why I live a green life, why water conservation, why getting wells in places, why work with water organizations, why conserve water at home with double-flush toilets, why I tell my daughters, "Turn off the tap" so much. Sometimes I want to say, "I wish I knew the answer. " My answer really is: I don't understand why everyone doesn't feel this way.
I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
There is an old Indian saying, "When legends die, dreams end. When dreams end, there is no more greatness. " Leaders like Walt Disney inspire their organizations to keep their legends and stories alive.
Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.
But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.
Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.
I think nuance is very important to have in the conversation, nuance that's been lacking for a long time. A lot of voting organizations only exist every four years, putting all this money into "your voice is important!" Wouldn't that be nice, if that's all it took? Voting is the first political action for most people. But if you don't follow up then voting is not actual participation but just a one-off.
Master data management is a discipline that goes hand in hand with information governance. Forward-thinking organizations are instituting processes to gain agreement on roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures surrounding the maintenance of a single view of the entities needed for conducting business and measuring its performance,.
I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.
The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.